Bugs found:

1. FckEditor shipped with BlogCFM would not work with Firefox with the default toolbar turned on.
2. Couldnt edit a post over a certain length. (damn typos)
   
3. If blogCFM is not installed to the root of your website and/or the site does not have access to /CFIDE all the cfform validation will fail and will generate tons of 404 errors in the web server log.

Fixes:

1. Downloaded and installed the latest version of FCKEditor.  It was simple, the only changes I had to make were in the FCKEditor config files so it would work with ColdFusion.
2. lines 857-858 of blogcfm.cfc had the wrong cfsqltype, had to change it to cfsqltype="cf_sql_longvarchar"
3. Had to modify all cfform tags and add an attribute of scriptsrc="#variables.blogConfig.webRoot#/CFIDE/scripts/cfform.js".  This sounds bad but Dreamweaver's advanced find and replace makes it easy.

Now that I had everything fixed that I found wrong. It was time to do see how easy it was to make modifications.

First thing I didnt like was to have the basic toolbar show by default for the FCKEditor and I couldnt find an option to change the default.  This seemed like a great first experiment.

1. ALTER TABLE blog_config ADD HTML_EDITOR_DEFAULT_STYLE varchar(25)
2. Added HTML_EDITOR_DEFAULT_STYLE to the getBlogConfig query in blogcfm.cfc
3. Added HTML_EDITOR_DEFAULT_STYLE=<cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" value="#arguments.details.HTML_EDITOR_DEFAULT_STYLE#"> in the update statement of saveblogconfig()
4. changed <cfparam name="toolbarSet" default="#variables.blogConfig.HTML_EDITOR_DEFAULT_STYLE#"> in entry_edit.cfm
5. added <cfparam name="FORM.HTML_EDITOR_DEFAULT_STYLE" default="Basic"> under the isDefined("form.blogConfig") in edit_entry.cfm
6.  added
   <br>
   <b>HTML Editor Options</b><br>
   Default style: <select name="HTML_EDITOR_DEFAULT_STYLE">
       <option value="Basic"<cfif blogConfig.HTML_EDITOR_DEFAULT_STYLE IS 'Basic'> SELECTED</cfif>>Basic</option>
     <option value="Default"<cfif blogConfig.HTML_EDITOR_DEFAULT_STYLE IS 'Default'> SELECTED</cfif>>Default</option>
   </select>
   to admin/index.cfm
   

That was all I had to do to make a new setting show up in the admin screen and have it be applied to every instance of the blog entry editor/creator. 

Considering I knew nothing about BlogCFM before, these changes were easy to make and find where to put the correct new code.

Next on the list will be creating a Links section, will keep you posted on how that works out.